“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Dacier | The couple had similar intellectual and professional interests; to some extent they became a working team. André Dacier's career prospered. He was elected to the Académie Française
in 1695, and his various official positions culminated... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Dacier | The first of AD
's patrons was Pierre-Daniel Huet
, a humanist bishop and a member of the Académie Française
. He recruited both Dacier and her husband for the team which was to produce... |
| Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS
had published only a few volumes and had often... |
| Occupation | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | Among the subjects most often canvassed at de Lambert's salon was the querelle des anciens et modernes (the battle of the ancients and moderns). Its leading figures (Anne Dacier
, translator of Homer
into... |
| Occupation | Natalie Clifford Barney | In a letter to Gertrude Stein
written in December 1926, NCB
explains: The other night . . . I realized how little the French femmes de lettres know of English and Americans and vice versa... |
| Publishing | George Sand | After leaving her husband and while living in Paris with her lover Jules Sandeau
, GS
took on her first job, that of writing for the journal Figaro, but also doggedly pursued a more... |
| Reception | A. Mary F. Robinson | AMFR
won a coveted prize from the Académie Française
for this volume. Lynch, Hannah. “A. Mary F. Robinson”. Fortnightly Review, Vol. 77 , Feb. 1902, pp. 260-76. 261 |
| Reception | Naomi Mitchison | NM
was awarded the Palmes de l'Académie Française
for this novel in the year after publication. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 15: 333 Calder, Jenni. The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison. Virago, 1997. 73 Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 65 |
| Reception | Madeleine de Scudéry | In the year of its publication, L'Académie Française
honoured MS
for her Discours de la gloire by giving her the prize for prose that had been founded by Balzac
. McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972. 225-6 Scudéry, Madeleine de. Mademoiselle de Scudéry. Editors Rathery et Boutron, Edme Jacques Benoît and Boutron, L. Techener, 1873. 120-1 |
| Textual Production | Sarah Austin | This report, by Victor Cousin
of the Académie Française
, was addressed to Count Montalivet
, Minister of Public Instruction. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Elstob | |
| Travel | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
attended the public session of the Académie Française
on the feast of St Louis. Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols. 1: 313 |
Timeline
1740: The Académie Française authorised a new and...
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1740
The Académie Française
authorised a new and reformed version of French orthography, a step away from fossilised traces of classical derivations, and towards a phonetic spelling.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
126
By 26 March 1741: Emilie du Chatelet composed, within a month,...
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By 26 March 1741
Emilie du Chatelet
composed, within a month, a refutation to sexist attack by Jean-Baptiste Dortous de Mairin
, Secretary of the Académie Française
, on her Treatise on the Nature of Fire.
Zinsser, Judith P. “Emilie du Châtelet: genius, gender, and intellectual authority”. Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, edited by Hilda L. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 168-90.
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Bodanis, David. “The scientist whom history forgot”. Guardian Weekly, 4–10 Aug. 2006, p. 10.
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10 July 1919: The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender...
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10 July 1919
The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender
(a Scottish baronet's daughter) and named after William Drummond
of Hawthornden, was first awarded, for the best work of imaginative literature
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
89n2
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
89 and n3, 90-1
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